Sure, any filter approach will turn into an arms race as people come up with new ways of avoiding filters, and their opponents come up with new ways of catching them.
So have some trusted authorities that moderate stuff - they don't have to be centralized... For example, just like we have warez groups now that release stuff and crack stuff, we could have groups that test stuff out, make sure it's quality, and pgp sign it to give it a seal of approval.
Then, you could program your client to check for that signature on anything you download. --
At that time, large department stores and consumer electronics retailers began
selling CD's below cost as a ``loss leader,'' in an effort to get people into the
stores to buy big-ticket items, labels said.
Someone's got to have a really inefficient distribution system if they can't make money off a $18 CD. --
I just read that story three times in a row, and i can't find a single reference to an emu. And i can't imagine that one would be any good at constructing an arcade console. --
Again, this all comes back to the "microsoft" underwear thing - you should be able to use a name if it has no chance of getting confused with the preexisting one. --
I think perhaps Pac-Man is (in the set-top-score mode) not properly complex in this way. Unless you have to make judgement calls based on how the ghosts are likely to move, it's just a Zenlike repetition of memorised patterns
Not if you get into the game. When i play, i do things like "hover" (move left and right really fast so as not to move at all) and watch the ghosts run around until things are safe, or dive into a group of ghosts to get the last few pellets. If you play enough (especially Ms. Pac Man), you turn into a Pac Man Houdini, escaping from what appear to be hopeless situations by watching the ghosts' eyes, hovering, predicting where they're going to go, and squeezing through an opening. --
Now, let's look at the single-click motif. I want to drag icon x from point a to point b. click and drag... oops I let go too early. Now wait for the document to open before closing it and trying again. Hey, I wan't to select 2 icons. Wait, that's not the shift key I'm holding, it's the caps-lock. Wait for the document to yatta yatta... Okay, I want to select one icon... now how the heck would I do that? Draw a box around it? sheesh
You're stuck in the one-mouse-button world. Make left-click work like it does today - click to select, hold to move. Make right-click launch, hold to get a drop-down menu. That's all it would take.
Unfortunately, by the time Windows was designed, Macs had gotten everyone used to the idea of double-clicking, so Microsoft stupidly went down that road.
Double-clicking should be an extremely rare event, in a well-designed UI.
The CNet story is pretty vague about the whole Intertrust thing... maybe it won't actually restrict your ability to play MP3s, but instead allow you to play whatever crap secure format Intertrust is working on in addition to being able to play all MP3s as usual. --
Just give the people what they want - downloads on a song by song basis for about $1 per song. They'll pay, the artists can eat, and the record companies can survive too, since there's very little overhead in an electronic transaction. --
relativity... doesn't rule out some sort of absolute timing.
Look up "relative" and "absolute" - they're opposites. When Einstein said that space and time are relative, he meant exactly that there is no absolute measure of space or time. --
You can find the Wired article about the registration of mcdonalds.com here. A quote:
"Are you finding that the Internet is a big thing?" asked Jane Hulbert, a helpful McDonald's media-relations person, with whom I spoke a short while ago. Yes, I told her. In some quarters, the Internet is a very big thing. --
So they announce the merger, their stocks drop, so they have to call off the merger. Now what happens? Their stock goes up. Does this mean the merger is on again?
This is really too bad. Corel and Inprise really could have meshed well, and it certainly would have strengthened both companies. Too bad the stock market had to tank. --
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How will having pgp-signed 'authoritative' files available prevent search-result spamming?
You only display search results that have been signed by one of the people you list as "trusted authorities"
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Sure, any filter approach will turn into an arms race as people come up with new ways of avoiding filters, and their opponents come up with new ways of catching them.
So have some trusted authorities that moderate stuff - they don't have to be centralized... For example, just like we have warez groups now that release stuff and crack stuff, we could have groups that test stuff out, make sure it's quality, and pgp sign it to give it a seal of approval.
Then, you could program your client to check for that signature on anything you download.
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At that time, large department stores and consumer electronics retailers began
selling CD's below cost as a ``loss leader,'' in an effort to get people into the
stores to buy big-ticket items, labels said.
Someone's got to have a really inefficient distribution system if they can't make money off a $18 CD.
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Looks like Slashdot's going to get sued for using an Apple logo without permission...
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You can't give yourself the ability to censor porn, without also giving yourself the ability to censor political speech.
Or without giving someone else the ability to get a court to order you to censor political speech.
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Let's test how serious they are by publishing a list of AT&T calling card numbers :)
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What is supposed to mean?
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I just read that story three times in a row, and i can't find a single reference to an emu. And i can't imagine that one would be any good at constructing an arcade console.
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I'm waiting for a pinball emulator. Hopefully realistic enough so you can whack the side of your monitor and get a "TILT!" message.
.. isn't that a Who song?
P.S. "Pinball Emu"
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ESR has a lot of good advice on this.. See www.tuxedo.org/~esr.
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Again, this all comes back to the "microsoft" underwear thing - you should be able to use a name if it has no chance of getting confused with the preexisting one.
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Why not just use a service outside of the USA if you plan on doing illegal things via email?
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I think perhaps Pac-Man is (in the set-top-score mode) not properly complex in this way. Unless you have to make judgement calls based on how the ghosts are likely to move, it's just a Zenlike repetition of memorised patterns
Not if you get into the game. When i play, i do things like "hover" (move left and right really fast so as not to move at all) and watch the ghosts run around until things are safe, or dive into a group of ghosts to get the last few pellets. If you play enough (especially Ms. Pac Man), you turn into a Pac Man Houdini, escaping from what appear to be hopeless situations by watching the ghosts' eyes, hovering, predicting where they're going to go, and squeezing through an opening.
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Now, let's look at the single-click motif. I want to drag icon x from point a to point b. click and drag... oops I let go too early. Now wait for the document to open before closing it and trying again. Hey, I wan't to select 2 icons. Wait, that's not the shift key I'm holding, it's the caps-lock. Wait for the document to yatta yatta... Okay, I want to select one icon... now how the heck would I do that? Draw a box around it? sheesh
You're stuck in the one-mouse-button world. Make left-click work like it does today - click to select, hold to move. Make right-click launch, hold to get a drop-down menu. That's all it would take.
Unfortunately, by the time Windows was designed, Macs had gotten everyone used to the idea of double-clicking, so Microsoft stupidly went down that road.
Double-clicking should be an extremely rare event, in a well-designed UI.
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The wild card may be Professor Touretzky's testimony, which Judge Jackson said was "extremely persuasive."
Judge Jackson? Wrong case, lady.
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The CNet story is pretty vague about the whole Intertrust thing ... maybe it won't actually restrict your ability to play MP3s, but instead allow you to play whatever crap secure format Intertrust is working on in addition to being able to play all MP3s as usual.
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Just give the people what they want - downloads on a song by song basis for about $1 per song. They'll pay, the artists can eat, and the record companies can survive too, since there's very little overhead in an electronic transaction.
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relativity ... doesn't rule out some sort of absolute timing.
Look up "relative" and "absolute" - they're opposites. When Einstein said that space and time are relative, he meant exactly that there is no absolute measure of space or time.
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You can find the Wired article about the registration of mcdonalds.com here. A quote:
"Are you finding that the Internet is a big thing?" asked Jane Hulbert, a helpful McDonald's media-relations person, with whom I spoke a short while ago. Yes, I told her. In some quarters, the Internet is a very big thing.
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Man, at least when Microsoft came after Slashdot, they didn't ask for their karma to be reset.
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So they announce the merger, their stocks drop, so they have to call off the merger. Now what happens? Their stock goes up. Does this mean the merger is on again?
This could go on for years!
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This is really too bad. Corel and Inprise really could have meshed well, and it certainly would have strengthened both companies. Too bad the stock market had to tank.
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Well, it's certainly about time.
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Is it me, or was this much shorter than the usual reviews?
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Yeah, but what's the latency? A station wagon full of tapes has a higher bandwidth, but pretty poor latency.
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